If Ireland had “hate speech” laws in place today, would Mary McAleese’s recent comments about Christianity meet the criteria? @Ben_Scallan investigates.

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https://gript.ie/would-mcaleese-be-guilty-of-hate-speech-for-church-remarks/

“So are the SDLP and Sinn Féin feeling heat because of the abortion issue? At my door, the SDLP canvasser produced a special leaflet from his folder when I raised the issue.”

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https://gript.ie/are-sinn-fein-and-the-sdlp-feeling-heat-on-the-abortion-issue/

Shocking allegations about Chinese organ donation have been made in a leading medical journal, the American Journal of Transplantation. An Australian researcher and an Israeli transplant surgeon claim that “physicians in the People’s Republic of China have participated in executions by organ removal”.

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https://gript.ie/report-chinese-doctors-executed-prisoners-for-their-organs/

A Social Democrats councillor has slammed Christians praying publicly on Good Friday, saying the display causes “hurt and distress” to LGBT individuals following the Sligo murders, and that it would “not be tolerated.”

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https://gript.ie/cllr-christians-praying-on-good-friday-causes-hurt-distress/

The World Health Organisation has expressed desire to sanction countries which break the rules of the global “Pandemic Treaty.”

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https://gript.ie/who-wants-to-sanction-countries-that-breach-pandemic-treaty/

A gender studies professor at University College Dublin has suggested the murders which took place in Sligo were rooted in a ‘never ending transphobia’ from people she described as Gender Criticals — usually women who believe sex is biological.

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https://gript.ie/anger-as-ucd-prof-says-sligo-murders-caused-by-feminists-who-believe-in-biology-over-trans-identity/?fbclid=IwAR2gsAbGm_ROtjJxpcLH-eLVICGYR0lj_vQ9H1vY9ciMRTBW8GzoqUYrJFw

A TD has told Gript that the energy and food crisis have been coming “for years” before the war in Ukraine, urging the resumption of peat harvesting and turf cutting.

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https://gript.ie/beautiful-boy-with-down-syndrome-comforts-jesus-in-good-friday-procession/

POLL: Do you feel Ireland is less safe in recent times?

VOTE in our online poll and leave your comments

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https://gript.ie/poll-do-you-feel-ireland-is-less-safe-in-recent-times/

Cumann na mBan: remembering my mother, Marion Steenson

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https://gript.ie/cumann-na-mban-remembering-my-mother-marion-steenson-2/

Man attacked with “machete-like weapon” in west Dublin

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https://gript.ie/man-attacked-with-machete-like-weapon-in-west-dublin/

An Easter Alleluia ar an seannós.

An EASTER Alleluia: From our featured Easter CD for 2020. Hymns of Passion and Resurrection by Celi Dé (2014). A seannós Alleluia, written and performed by Lorcán Mac Mathúna.

www.celide.ie

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LOOKBACK: We published this piece this time 2 years ago

Deus Meus (My God): 11th century hymn

FEATURED CD for Easter 2020 is the album from Celi Dé. Deus Meus (My God) composed by Irish monk Máel Ísu Ua Brolchán almost 1000 years ago in 1086. Vocals and music Íde Nic Mhathúna and Trian O'Riordan. www.celide.ie (2014)

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https://www.facebook.com/GriptMedia/videos/247831259676613/

ON THIS DAY: EASTER MONDAY, 1916 RISING

Organised by a seven-man Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Rising began on Easter Monday, 24 April 1916 and lasted for six days.

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-easter-monday-1916-easter-rising-takes-place-2/

"The least these great women deserve is to be remembered and honoured. Indeed, that is exactly what I and many others hope to commemorate this Easter and every year thereafter."

CAROL NOLAN writes on the local Cumann na mBan in Offaly

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https://gript.ie/carol-nolan-prayer-and-patriotism-the-heroes-of-cumann-na-mban-2/

Scríbhneoir, file, saighdiúir agus polaiteoir ab ea Brian Ó hUiginn ar a dtugtar Brian na Banban freisin, a bhí ina bhall bunaitheach de Shinn Féin agus a bhí mar Uachtarán ar an eagraíocht ó 1931 go 1933.

PÓL Ó MEADHRA

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https://gript.ie/briain-o-huiginn-scribhneoir-file-saighdiuir-agus-polaiteoir-2/

"Unless we realise that future generations aren’t the only ones for whom we should protect the environment, we risk grievously harming present generations in the process."

MATHEW OTIENO writes on the Batwa people of Central Africa

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https://gript.ie/the-batwa-paid-the-ultimate-price-to-save-gorillas-do-environmentalists-care/

"But as we survey Shanghai from Western nations that have, at least for a while, recovered most of the liberties we were stripped of in the name of public health, we cannot afford to be complacent," writes David Thunder.

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https://gript.ie/shanghais-orwellian-nightmare/

DAVID REYNOLDS on why some media reporting on Ukraine may not be trusted. "Is the story as black and white as it is made out to be, or are there shades of grey?"

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https://gript.ie/war-in-ukraine-why-are-shades-of-grey-now-unmentionable/

In an effort to appease transgender activists, UK midwives have been urged to refer to the vagina as a “front-hole” or “genital opening.”

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https://gript.ie/midwives-told-to-call-vagina-front-hole-genital-opening/

"Reading these figures makes me extremely angry," said Peadar Tóibín. "Homeless people are dying at a rate we've never seen before".

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https://gript.ie/115-homeless-people-died-in-dublin-last-year-documents-released-to-aontu-show/

MATT TREACY: Minister McEntee is wrong - Irish society did not behead men because they are gay.

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https://gript.ie/minister-mcentee-is-wrong-irish-society-did-not-behead-men-because-they-are-gay/